| 21.06.2009 09:28 | Migration | Workers' Movements
A look at the results of the occupation of SOAS which took place in response to the immigration raid against cleaners employed by ISS. Produced collectively by some of the activists who took part in the occupation.

More thuggish banking crisis-oriented Nettime forwarding from me...account of an activist's valiant campaign to become a one-man booster rocket for the global financial meltdown

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I am writing down this pages to announce that I have expropriated 492,000 euros to 39 banks through 68 loan deals. If we include interest on arrears, the present amount of debt is over 500,000 euros which I will not pay.

Firsthand account translated from Wildcat issue 81 (original article at: http://www.wildcat-www.de/wildcat/81/w81_dacia.htm) of the Romanian Renault/Dacia strike earlier this year, which forced wage increases of 30-40% and, in the context of a migration-induced labour shortage, inaugurated a strike wave which has since hit Constanta port and ArcelorMittal. More reports from Romania forthcoming.

All-too-plausible explanation from Asia Times (http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Central_Asia/JH13Ag02.html) of Georgia's attack on South Ossetia (2,000 civilians killed and refugees made of another 30,000; a helping hand from US airlifts of 2,000 'essential' Georgian troops back from Iraq) in terms of the push to extend NATO into the Caucasus, which, as it says in the title, would 'end the post-Cold War era', permanently activating the military faultline along Russia's southwestern border and the course of the major Central Asian gas and oil pipelines.